文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Wang, Jiarui ¹ ; Yang, Shuoxin ¹ ; Hu, Siwei ⁴ ; Li, Qian ¹ ; Liu, Chong ³ ; Gao, Yi ⁵ ; Huang, Jianyin ⁶ ; Chow, Christopher W. K. ⁷ ; Liu, Fang ¹ ; Zheng, Xiangqun ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Agroenvironm Protect Inst, Tianjin 300191, Peoples R China

2.Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Key Lab Rural Toilet & Sewage Treatment Technol, Tianjin 300191, Peoples R China

3.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Inst Environm & Sustainable Dev Agr, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China

4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China

5.Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Biogas Inst, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China

6.Univ Queensland, Sch Agr & Food Sustainabil, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia

7.Univ South Australia, Sustainable Infrastruct & Resource Management SIRM, UniSA STEM, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia

关键词： rural living environment improvement; rural household solid waste disposal; rural domestic sewage treatment; rural toilet revolution; high-level construction; rural revitalization strategy

期刊名称：SUSTAINABILITY （ 影响因子：3.3； 五年影响因子：3.6 ）

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年卷期： 2025 年 17 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Improving the rural living environment is of great significance in enhancing the life quality of rural residents and promoting rural sustainable development. The Chinese government initiated a nationwide three-year action in 2018, followed by a five-year campaign starting in 2021, to improve the rural living environment. Despite these efforts, comprehensive assessment covering multiple facets of the rural living environment at the national level remained scarce. A novel evaluation method was proposed in this study that included seven aspects and nineteen indicators, applied AHP for weighting, and PLS-SEM to analyze the relationships between variables. Then, the completion of key tasks of rural living environment improvement in 37 counties, which were incentivized by the State Council on account of its excellent governance results, was comprehensively investigated and evaluated. The assessment of key tasks in the 37 incentivized counties revealed high completion in rural household solid waste disposal, domestic sewage treatment, and toilet improvement. However, the level of the rural living environment was uneven among different regions, and the progress varied in different key tasks. The funds input had a greater impact on the comprehensive level of rural living environment than social and economic factors. Accordingly, the government should provide more targeted financial and policy support to underdeveloped areas. And priority should be given to the sewage treatment and sanitation, especially in rural and remote areas. Furthermore, local governments should diversify funding sources to ensure the sustainability of rural living environment development. These findings provide a theoretical basis for developing policies and specific plans to address the challenges of financial investment and rural living environment management in China and other developing countries and regions worldwide.